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Document scoring based on document inception dateRelated Patent Categories: Data Processing: Database And File Management Or Data Structures, Database Or File Accessing, Query Processing (i.e., Searching), Query Augmenting And Refining (e.g., Inexact Access)Document scoring based on document inception date description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070094254, Document scoring based on document inception date. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/748,664, filed Dec. 31, 2003, which claims priority under 35 U.S.C. .sctn. 119 based on U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/507,617, filed Sep. 30, 2003, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] 1. Field of the Invention [0003] The present invention relates generally to information retrieval systems and, more particularly, to systems and methods for generating search results based, at least in part, on historical data associated with relevant documents. [0004] 2. Description of Related Art [0005] The World Wide Web ("web") contains a vast amount of information. Search engines assist users in locating desired portions of this information by cataloging web documents. Typically, in response to a user's request, a search engine returns links to documents relevant to the request. [0006] Search engines may base their determination of the user's interest on search terms (called a search query) provided by the user. The goal of a search engine is to identify links to high quality relevant results based on the search query. Typically, the search engine accomplishes this by matching the terms in the search query to a corpus of pre-stored web documents. Web documents that contain the user's search terms are considered "hits" and are returned to the user. [0007] Ideally, a search engine, in response to a given user's search query, will provide the user with the most relevant results. One category of search engines identifies relevant documents based on a comparison of the search query terms to the words contained in the documents. Another category of search engines identifies relevant documents using factors other than, or in addition to, the presence of the search query terms in the documents. One such search engine uses information associated with links to or from the documents to determine the relative importance of the documents. [0008] Both categories of search engines strive to provide high quality results for a search query. There are several factors that may affect the quality of the results generated by a search engine. For example, some web site producers use spamming techniques to artificially inflate their rank. Also, "stale" documents (i.e., those documents that have not been updated for a period of time and, thus, contain stale data) may be ranked higher than "fresher" documents (i.e., those documents that have been more recently updated and, thus, contain more recent data). In some particular contexts, the higher ranking stale documents degrade the search results. [0009] Thus, there remains a need to improve the quality of results generated by search engines. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0010] Systems and methods consistent with the principles of the invention may score documents based, at least in part, on history data associated with the documents. This scoring may be used to improve search results generated in connection with a search query. [0011] According to one aspect, a method may include determining a document inception date associated with a document; generating a score for the document based, at least in part, on the document inception date; and ranking the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. [0012] According to another aspect, a method may include receiving a search query; performing a search based, at least in part, on the search query to identify a group of search result documents; determining a document inception date for each of the search result documents in a set of the search result documents in the group; determining a representative document inception date for the search result documents in the set of search result documents; generating a score for a search result document in the set of search result documents based, at least in part, on a difference between the document inception date associated with the search result document and the representative document inception date for the search result documents in the set of search result documents; and ranking the search result document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. [0013] According to yet another aspect, a system may include means for determining a document inception date associated with a document; means for determining a rate at which links to the document are created based, at least in part, on the document inception date; means for generating a score for the document based, at least in part, on the rate at which links to the document are created; and means for ranking the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. [0014] According to a further aspect, a method may include determining a first document inception date associated with a first document; determining a second document inception date associated with a second document, where the second document inception date is earlier in time than the first document inception date; generating a first score for the first document based, at least in part, on the first document inception date; and generating a second score for the second document based, at least in part, on the second document inception date, where the first score is higher than the second score; and ranking the first document or the second document with regard to at least one other document respectively based, at least in part, on the first score or the second score. [0015] According to another aspect, a method may include determining a first document inception date associated with a first document; determining a second document inception date associated with a second document, where the second document inception date is earlier in time than the first document inception date; generating a first score for the first document based, at least in part, on the first document inception date; generating a second score for the second document based, at least in part, on the second document inception date, where the first score is lower than the second score; and ranking the first document or the second document with regard to at least one other document respectively based, at least in part, on the first score or the second score. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0016] The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate an embodiment of the invention and, together with the description, explain the invention. In the drawings, [0017] FIG. 1 is a diagram of an exemplary network in which systems and methods consistent with the principles of the invention may be implemented; [0018] FIG. 2 is an exemplary diagram of a client and/or server of FIG. 1 according to an implementation consistent with the principles of the invention; [0019] FIG. 3 is an exemplary functional block diagram of the search engine of FIG. 1 according to an implementation consistent with the principles of the invention; and [0020] FIGS. 4 is a flowchart of exemplary processing for scoring documents according to an implementation consistent with the principles of the invention. Continue reading about Document scoring based on document inception date... 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